slimsag

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

playground.rs

use std::cmp;
use std::u32::MAX;
use std::num::ParseIntError;

const INPUT: &str = "1208	412	743	57	1097	53	71	1029	719	133	258	69	1104	373	367	365
4011	4316	1755	4992	228	240	3333	208	247	3319	4555	717	1483	4608	1387	3542
675	134	106	115	204	437	1035	1142	195	1115	569	140	1133	190	701	1016
4455	2184	5109	221	3794	246	5214	4572	3571	3395	2054	5050	216	878	237	3880
4185	5959	292	2293	118	5603	2167	5436	3079	167	243	256	5382	207	5258	4234
94	402	126	1293	801	1604	1481	1292	1428	1051	345	1510	1417	684	133	119

playground.rs

const INPUT: &str = "6169763796227664136644229724736711773811471986347364813198\
2449728688116728695866572989524473392982963976411147683588415878214189996163533\
5845471757941581181487242988327988983333997865614591526441446699598873414819683\
1917298735798978579136673284993278834377211217661472385847495991971385539887695\
6427631354172668133549845585632211935573662181331613137869866693259374322169811\
6836353253215972428893581471233581177749146537873713685747843767216521817923716\
3528837672978496752682491519252674493518798957134774622211362557796347614192318\
7534658445615596987614385911513939292257263723518774888174635963254624769684533\
5314437457293443419737464693268381862484484835874775632858674999564462187752323\
7438343392183599313646338362886111557314285435894329114876629965363319558213593\

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

[ Update 2020-05-31: I won't be maintaining this page or responding to comments anymore (except for perhaps a few exceptional occasions). ]

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.